THE THREE SYMBOLICITIES
THE THREE SYMBOLICITIES

Summary/Abstract: I intend to explore the three phylogenetic levels of symbolicity in humanity. 1- Assertion of Existence: existential symbolism. 2- Description of Experience: Experiential and “ethical” symbolism. 3- Creation/invention of Transcendence: transcendental symbolism. I intend to follow the phylogenic development of human symbolism from the emergence of Homo Sapiens to today with three vast periods. I then will consider the phylogeny of the symbolicity of humans from isolated “first” words to complex conceptual language leading to the triad of creative symbolism: 1- Construction and transmission of knowledge: science, technology, education. 2- Artistic creation in the linguistic field (poetry, fiction) and in the non-linguistic fields (music, carving, painting, dancing, singing even). 3- Spirituality in Life (survival, coping with death, the supernatural); in philosophy (explaining life and death, an ethical approach); in religion (answer the simple question: where does this world, plus life and humanity, come from?) The conclusion will reject post-postmodern approaches, often left-leaning, such as Marcel Gauchet’s, Ray Kurzweil’s, Yuval Noah Harari’s, with the “program” of humanity set on absolute individualism; the sole model of representative democracy; the excessive prediction of a singularity to happen soon (science and technology for Kurzweil; religious for Harari and his Homo Deus; social for Gauchet in the form of the “revolutionary” upheaval of the masses). My conclusion will go the same way as Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan in their book (2021) AI 2041, Ten Visions For Our Future. Nothing is written in advance in human history and scientific research.

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